Container for stogies.



G. H. SCHMUNK. CONTAINER FOR STOGIES.

APPLIQATIOR PILED nime, 1912.

Patented s t.29,1914.

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marra; STAnsEATENT OFFICE.-

GEORGE HENRY SCHMUNK, OF CRANBEREY TOWNSHIP, BUTLER COUNTY, PENNSYL- VANIA, ASSIGNOR TO PITTSBTRG- PENNSYLVANA, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

`SIGrAIt COMPANY, OF 'PITTSBURGH,

COETAINER- FOR STOGIES.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

i Patented Sept. 29, 1914.

Application filed Apr129, 1912. Serial No. 693925.

My object is to provide a crum or otherl container wherein the stogies will be protected from longitudinal crushing when the cover is on the container andin which the stogies will. be attractively displayed when on sale. The cover or lid of my container is so arranged that it is held away from the stogies in the container to avoid crushing or breaking the same, and when removed may be used for a base in which the bottom of the container may be inserted or stepped to form a firm hearing for the box and to enable the two parts of the sev ered revenue stamp to be plainly displayed as required by law. A tube or other foreign object of sufiicient length to substantially span the distance between the bottom of the contaner and the cover, when the latter is in place, is packed with the stogies thus supporting the cover against crushing down upon the stogies as frequently happens in the ordinary container.

My new and improved container is provided with a cover which has an'internal circumferential shoulder of the same diame ter as the body of the container, the cover proper being of sufiicien't diameter to slip down over the body of the container. The shoulder supports the cover on the top of the body of the container out of contact with the stogies, the cover being also maintained against caving in by the tube as explained above. The body of the container may thus be made short enough to display the upper ends of the stogies to view when the cover is removed, thus attracting purchasers to the wares. Then the cover is removed from the top of the container, it may be reversed and the bottom of the container inserted or stopped therein, thus giving the container a firm foundation for the display and sale of goods and at the same time exhibiting in plain View both portions of the severed reve- -nue stamp as required by law. i The usual practice is now to make the cover of larger i a diameter than the body of the container so that the former sllps downon the same and rests upon its contents. Or the diameter of the upper portion of the` containeris reduced to form an exterior shoulder on the i body of the container downagainst which the edgeof the cover rests. In such case the bottom of the box cannot be inserted in the reversed cover to display the goods but is partially inserted therein, so that the container stands unsteadily on an ing an unsightly appearance and o ten causing the container to be knocked over and the contents spil led on the dirty floor. Freincline, iv-

quently the cover is thrown away, thus cause` mg collision With the revenue oficers.

In the accompanyng drawngs, Fgure l s a vertical section showing my improved contain'erwith the cover in place and stogies packed therein, the cover being shown in dotted lines reversed and the foot of the container inserted or stepped therein; Fig. 2 is a similar view ofthe empty container, the cover being raised slightly for the sake of clearness, and Fig. 3 is a side elevation of a. bunch of stogies formed and ready to be inserted lengthwise into the vcontainer.

The following is a 'detaled description of the drawings.`

1 is the container which is illustrated as a cylindrical drum but which may be of any cross-sectional shape, such as polyhedral, and preferably formed of cardboard. The body of the container is cheaply made as it is provided with no shoulders or lips but has a plain open top.

2 is the cover provided With a depending edge flange 3 of sufficient Capacity to slip down over the upper portion of the body 1. 4 is an internal shoulder in said flange 3 formed by fiXing a strip of carclboard 5 in the interior of the cover 2, said shoulder being of the proper diameter to rest upon the top edge of the body 1 and to limit the downward movement of the cover 2. This enables me to reduce the height of the body l so that the stogies packed therein will extend up above the top edge of the same for the attractive displayof the latter, it being characteristic of the stogie-smoker that he will' go first to the box in which the stogies are most prominently displayed to View.

' on 'his rounds.

3 My process of packing the stogies in the container is illustrated in Figs. 3 and 1. A strip of paper, cloth or other material, 6, is used to roll the stogies into a conpact bunch as shown in Fig. 3, a foreign object or objects, as the paper tube 7, being included in the bunch. Such object is provided With a s no'oth lateral surface to permt its being jdrawn from' the bunch of stogies to loosen the same Without rupturing or tearing their 'wrappers When the bunch of stogies is compressed by rolhng or manipulation into the proper compass, it is slipped lengthvvise into' the contaner' l, being allowed to eX- pand slightly to snugly fit the interior of said container, the paper G being preferably left about the stogies. The tube or other foreign body 7 is preferably somewhat longer than the stogies and When resting upon the botton of the container extends upwardly to a degree sufiicient to come into light contact With. the cover 2 When the latter is placed upon the container, thus assisting the shoulder 4 in keeping the cover out x of contact With the stogies.

hat I desire to claim is A container for the vertical packing of stogies consistng of a body having a constant diameter and a cover provided With a depending fiange of sufiicient Capacity to receive either the top or the botton of the said body, said flange being provided With an internal shoulder to limit the insertion of the top or bottom of said body therein, and

a loose support adapted to be held in place by the stogies and to extend from the bottoin of said container to the cover thereof to prevent longitudinal crushing of said stogies,

substantially as and for the purpose described.

Signed at Pttsburgh, Penna., this 25th day of April 1912.

GEORGE HENRY SCHMUNK. Witnesses:

E. A. LAWRENCE, H. B. VVAKEFIELD.

copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressng the Commissoner of Patents.

Washington, D. C. 

